Stamp-affixer.



No. 637,393. 7 Patented Nov. 2|, I899. H. S. 8:. B. F. KLEIN.

STAMP AFFIXER.

(Application filed July 6, 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\lIENR-Y S. KLEIN AND BENJAMIN F. KLEIN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

STAM P-AFFIXER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,393, dated November21, 1899. Application filed July 3, 1899. Serial No. 722,629. (Nomodel.)

hereinafter particularly set forth with refer-' ence to the accompanyingdrawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure l of the'drawin gs represents a part1 ysectional view ofa'de'vice in accordance with our invention, the view being indicated bylines 1 1 in the succeeding figure; Fig. 2, an elevation of the device,partly in section; Fig. 3, a plan view, partly in horizontal section onthe plane indicated by line 3 3 in the preceding figure; Fig. 4, a planview, partly in horizontal section on the plane indicated by line 4. iin the second figure; Fig. 5, a perspective view of the stamp-magazineelement of said device inverted; Fig-6, a similar view of thestamp-pusher portion of the aforesaid device, and Fig. 7 a like view ofthe casing or stand portion of the same.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A in dicates an elongated metalcasing of rectangular contour in transverse section, the lower end .ofthe same being open and preferably flared at all sides to obtain greatersupporting area and afford clearance for a sliding open-bottom metalshell B, constituting a stamp-magazine, hereinafter more particularlydescribed. Extending up from the top of the casing, central of the same,is a tubular guide 0 for a hollow shank D of an angular bail E, and ahandle F is made fast on the bail-shank.

A spiral spring G of suitable power, arranged under tension in thetubular guide 0 and shank D aforesaid, operates to automatically returnthe bail E to normal position when pressure thereon is released.

The lower open end of the magazine B is shown provided with inwardlyextending zine B and the pusher I to hold this pusher under pressureagainst the stamps supported in said magazine.

The casing A and stampmagazine B are longitudinally slotted in registerwith the slots in arms J of the pusher I, and the registering slots areengaged by inwardly-extending ears 1 of the bail E, to which referenceis had in the foregoing. The longitudinal slotting of the stamp-magazinewith respect to the slots in the pusher-arms J is such that the two movetogether when the bail is forced down, initial pressure coming on saidpusherarms until by gradual diminishing of the pile of stamps, ashereinafter explained, the pressure comes directly upon said magazine.

Inpractice the stamps are piled in the magazine B to have their adhesivefaces downward and that portion of an envelop or other surface to bestamped is moistened preliminary to an operation of our device, thelatter being then set over the moistened surface and its bail pusheddown. This operation brings the adhesive side of the lowermost stamp inforcible contact. with the moistened surface, where it adheres and pullsaway from the supporting corner-flanges of the magazine, when pressureupon said bail is released to permit retraction of said magazineincidental to expansion of the spring in the bail-shank and the tubularguide for same.

In conjunction with a st-amp-affixing de-, vice of the genus abovespecified we may provide a moistener, and we herewith illustrate such anorganization. The moistener herein shown consists of a water-holder L,having a lower end spout plug ed with a protruding fold M of felt orother suitable absorbent material, said receptacle being provided with afilling-aperture and detachably connected to a side of the casing of thestamp-affixing dethe holder, the material protruding from the lower endspout of said holder being keptmoist by absorption. At its lower end the1 back of the illustrated water-holder is provided with an elongatedhorizontal eye j for the engagement of a corresponding hook k,projecting from the adjacent side of the stamp-aflixer casing, and aspring-latch m, fast on the top of said water-holder, engages with thetop of said casing; but we do not limit ourselves to a detachablemoistener nor to one that is necessarily in rigid connection with thestamp-affixer.

To utilize the combined moistener and stamp affixer herein particularlyshown and described, the machine as a whole is tilted in the hand topermit of theprotruding absorbent material of said moistener being sweptalong the surface to be moistened, after which said machine is broughtto an upright position and the' bail portion thereof operated in themanner above described to discharge the requisite number of stamps oneby one upon the moistened surface.

I While we have shown and described a preferred construction andarrangement of parts constituting a combined surface-moistener andstamp-afiixer, the details of the machine may be considerably variedwithout departure from the scope of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. An adhesive-stamp aftixer comprising an upright casing open at itslower end and pro- Videdwith an upwardly-extendiu tubular guide, a bailhaving a tubular shanlz loose on the guide, a spiral spring undertension in said guide and bail-shank, a stamp-magazine loose .in thecasing and having its lower end open but provided withinwardly-extending supports, and a stamp-pusher loose in the magazine,this stamp-pusher and said magazine being in conjunction with the bailto reciprocate with the same.

2. An adhesive-stamp aifixer comprising an upright casin g open at itslower end and provided with longitudinal side slots as well as anupwardly-extending tubular guide and top slots, a stamp-magazine loosein the casing and also provided with longitudinal side slots and topslots, a stamp-pusher loose in the magazine and provided withlongitudinally-slotted arms engaging the top slots in said magazine andcasing, a spiral spring under tension against the stamp-pusher, a bailhaving a tubular shank loose on the aforesaid guide, a spiral springunder tension in said guide and bail-shank, and bail-ears engaging theslots longitudinally of the aforesaid casing, stamp-magazine andpusher-arms;

3. An adhesive-stamp afiixer comprisingan upright casing open at itslower end, a stampmagazine loose in the casing and provided at its openlower end with inwardly-extending supports, a stamp-pusher loose in themagazine, and a spring-controlled bail operative in conjunction with thestamp-pusher and magazine to reciprocate the same; together with a water-receptacle, in detachable connection with said casing, provided with acountersunk filling-aperture surrounded by a compressible gasket facingthe aforesaid casing, and a plug of absorbent material protruding from alower end spout of said receptacle.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto setourha-nds,atl\lilwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee andState ofVViscousin, in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY S. KLEIN. BENJAMIN F. KLEIN.

Witnesses: N. E. OLIPHANT,

B. C. RoLoFF.

